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I've been studying 1 Peter, using David Bentley Hart's (DBH) recent NT translation as one of my English versions. There are some really interesting differences in DBH's translation. Here is one -- curious for any thoughts:

NIV: Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

NRS: Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation--

DBH: Crave the unadulterated milk of reason like newborn babes, so that you may thereby grow into salvation,

The phrase I'm focused on is "pure spiritual milk" or "unadulterated milk of reason" -- potentially a really interesting difference!

I think I like Hart's rendering of λογικὸν ἄδολον γάλα better. λογικὸν in the classical sense refers to reason, I think. I'm not sure why Hart renders λογικὸν as though it were a noun in the genitive though, instead of as an adjective ("reasonable milk"?)

I note also that DBH translates λογικὴν similarly in Romans 12:1 in the phrase τὴν λογικὴν λατρείαν ὑμῶν as "your rational worship" instead of "your true and proper" (NIV) or "spiritual" (NRS) worship. "Rational" sounds odd in Romans 12:1, but Romans 12:2 refers to the renewal of the "mind" or (per DBH) "intellect" (νοὸς) so the context there does seem to refer to the "mind" and not the "spirit."

I'm curious, though, why in 1 Peter 2:2 as well as Romans 12:2 "spirit" or "spiritual" seems to be the more conventional reading?